John Prendergast - Book Review: Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa - SAIS Review 18:2 SAIS Review 18.2 (1998) 234-236 Book Review Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa. By John Prendergast. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1996. 164 pp. $12.95 paper. This volume by John Prendergast is part of a growing literature by activists in the humanitarian community who have been conducting a process of critical self-examination.